Premodern Plants
This book gathers essays on premodern plants, considering the position of critical plant studies in relation to medieval studies. Contributions cover topics including the significance of the daisy in the two Prologues to Chaucer's Legend of Good Women; naming in premodern herbals; gathering pra...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Editor's introduction
- 2. ‘Farewel my bok’: Paying attention to flowers in Chaucer’s prologues to The Legend of Good Women
- 3. Vegetal continuity and the naming of species
- 4. The sacrificial herb: Gathering prayers in medieval pharmacy
- 5. Written in trees
- 6. Fruit and rot: Vegetal theology in Perceforest
- 7. Before and after plants
- 8. Libertine botany: Vegetal sexualities, vegetal forms
- 9. Centerpieces
- 10. Writing with plants
- 11. Is Dante a cosmopolitan?